Madonna's Metamorphosis Through the Years

The incredible career of the pop icon in photos.

Madonna Through the Years

"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after," Madonna said in an interview with director Gus Van Sant. "It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS. I made a documentary about it ["I Am Because We Are," 2008], and it's just become part of my life." (Marcus Piggott, Mert Alas/Courtesy Interview Magazine)